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It is to lose sight of God , our chief good , in a world where at best we can obtain
but an imperfect knowledge of him . What is it to confine the desires of our hearts
to earthly happiness ? It is to forget our best interest in a world , where , when we
...
It is to lose sight of God , our chief good , in a world where at best we can obtain
but an imperfect knowledge of him . What is it to confine the desires of our hearts
to earthly happiness ? It is to forget our best interest in a world , where , when we
...
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conceivable and ineffable delights ; and yet the enjoyment of his own happiness
doth not at all divert his attention from the happiness of his creatures ! If a Saul
persecute his church , he is persécuted with it , Acts ix . 4. and when profane
hands ...
conceivable and ineffable delights ; and yet the enjoyment of his own happiness
doth not at all divert his attention from the happiness of his creatures ! If a Saul
persecute his church , he is persécuted with it , Acts ix . 4. and when profane
hands ...
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We freely acknowledge , therefore , that with fear and trembling we endeavored
last Lord's day , to display its greatness , and , though all our protraits were
infinitely beneath the original , though we esteemed it then our happiness , and
our ...
We freely acknowledge , therefore , that with fear and trembling we endeavored
last Lord's day , to display its greatness , and , though all our protraits were
infinitely beneath the original , though we esteemed it then our happiness , and
our ...
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Fear , in this third sense , is a disposition which considers him who is the object of
it as alone possessing all that can contribute to our happiness or misery .
Distinguish here a particular from a general happiness . Every being around us ,
by a ...
Fear , in this third sense , is a disposition which considers him who is the object of
it as alone possessing all that can contribute to our happiness or misery .
Distinguish here a particular from a general happiness . Every being around us ,
by a ...
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He was trying to convince them fully that idols could procure neither happiness
nor misery to mankind ; and that , if their worshippers should inflict any
punishments on the captives , they would be only particular evils permitted by the
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He was trying to convince them fully that idols could procure neither happiness
nor misery to mankind ; and that , if their worshippers should inflict any
punishments on the captives , they would be only particular evils permitted by the
...
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Page 271 - Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Page 142 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 101 - But beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Page 270 - For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words ; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more...
Page 100 - And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Page 271 - See that ye refuse not him that speaketh ; for if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven...
Page 104 - Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. 22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy ? are we stronger than he...
Page 289 - Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God*.
Page 293 - And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years...
Page 126 - Thou, even thou, art LORD alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
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| Title | Sermons Translated from the Original French of the Late Rev. James Saurin ..., Volume 1 Sermons Translated from the Original French of the Late Rev. James Saurin, Joseph Sutcliffe |
| Authors | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson |
| Editor | Gabriel Dumont |
| Publisher | L. Nichols, 1803 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2006 |
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